Traveling America’s ‘Murderland’
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The Pacific Northwest is known for its startling natural beauty, precocious rainfall, and propensity to birth serial killers. Why? Caroline Fraser has a theory and it’s a good one.
This week on Angry Planet, Fraser takes us on a journey through the American past and into the dark heart of the PNW. Her new book Murderland weaves together memoir, true crime, history, and science into a compelling narrative that’s as beautiful and deadly as the forests around Tacoma.
- Lead in the time of serial killers
- Crazywall as map
- America’s ultra-leaded 1970s
- The killer hubristic roadways of the Pacific Northwest
- The unique draw of Ted Bundy
- The beauty and horror of the PNW’s woods
- Lead poisoned psychos become pop culture geniuses
- Anne Rule and the different eras of true crime writing
- The Olympic–Wallowa lineament
- The current state of the true crime genre
Murdlerand: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
A look back at the I-90 floating bridges before light-rail work begins
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